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Thursday Evening, February 18, 2016, at 8:30

A Coffin in Egypt: An Opera-in-Concert featuringFrederica von Stade

This evening’s program is approximately 90 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.

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Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella.

Endowment support provided by Bank of America

This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.

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American Songbook

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Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by The DuBose andDorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Irwin B. Cohen, The G & A Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends ofLincoln Center.

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UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTSIN THE APPEL ROOM:

Friday Evening, February 19, at 8:30Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!

Saturday Evening, February 20, at 8:30Andy Karl & Orfeh

Wednesday Evening, February 24, at 8:30Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla & Bhi Bhiman:Swimming in Dark Waters—Other Voices of the American Experience

Thursday Evening, February 25, at 8:30La Santa Cecilia

Friday Evening, February 26, at 8:30Charles Busch: The Lady at the MicA cabaret tribute to Elaine Stritch, Polly Bergen, Mary Cleere Haran, Julie Wilson & Joan Rivers

Saturday Evening, February 27, at 8:30Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project: Love & Soulfeaturing Valerie Simpson & Oleta Adams

IN THE STANLEY H. KAPLAN PENTHOUSE:

Wednesday Evening, March 16, at 8:00Luluc

The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. The Stanley H.Kaplan Penthouse is located in the Samuel B. and David Rose Building at 165 West 65thStreet, 10th floor.

For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete programinformation.

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American Songbook I The Program

A Coffin in Egypt: An Opera-in-Concert Ricky Ian Gordon, ComposerLeonard Foglia, Librettist and Director

Based on the play by Horton FootePlace: Egypt, TexasTime: 1970

Frederica von Stade, Myrtle BledsoeIsabel Keating, Jessie LydellDavid Matranga, Hunter BledsoeBen Sheaffer, Captain LawsonCarolyn Johnson, Elsie

Gospel Choir Malorie Casimir, Soprano Chantelle Grant, Mezzo-soprano Terrence Chin-Loy, Tenor Justin Hopkins, Bass-baritone

Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE)Timothy Myers, Conductor

Keturah Stickann, ChoreographerEdward Barnes, Producer

American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Ricky Ian Gordon’s (composer) operas include Morning Star for CincinnatiOpera (librettist: William Hoffman), 27 for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis(librettist: Royce Vavrek), Rappahannock County for Virginia Opera (librettist:Mark Campbell), Green Sneakers for the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival(librettist: Mr. Gordon), The Grapes of Wrath for Minnesota Opera (librettist:Michael Korie), The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Houston Grand Opera(librettist: Jean-Claude van Itallie), and Orpheus and Euridice for LincolnCenter (librettist: Mr. Gordon), which won an Obie Award. Mr. Gordon’smusicals include Sycamore Trees for the Signature Theatre (Helen HayesAward), My Life with Albertine for Playwrights Horizons (AT&T Award,Gilman and Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation Award), with writer/directorRichard Nelson, and Dream True for the Vineyard Theatre, with writer/direc-tor Tina Landau (Richard Rodgers Award). Upcoming projects include theoperas Intimate Apparel (librettist: Lynn Nottage), a co-commission fromthe Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater, and The House Withouta Christmas Tree for Houston Grand Opera (librettist: Vavrek), and the musi-cal Private Confessions with Richard Nelson, for the Goodman Theatre. Hissongs have been recorded and performed by such artists as RenéeFleming, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Frederica von Stade, DawnUpshaw, and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Other awards include theNational Institute for Music Theater, Stephen Sondheim, and JonathanLarson Foundation Awards, the Second Stage Constance Klinsky Award,and the Shen Family Foundation Award.

Leonard Foglia

Leonard Foglia’s (librettist and director) original Broadway productions includeMaster Class, Thurgood, and The People in the Picture. Broadway revivalsinclude On Golden Pond, Wait Until Dark, and the recent production of TheGin Game with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. Off-Broadway creditsinclude Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy and One Touch of Venusfor New York City Center’s Encores! As a librettist, Mr. Foglia’s mariachiopera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, with music by José “Pepe” Martínez, pre-miered at Houston Grand Opera and has since been presented by San DiegoOpera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arizona Opera, and Théâtre du Châtelet inParis. Lyric Opera of Chicago presented the premiere of El Pasado Nunca SeTermina, with music by Martínez, which has since played at Houston GrandOpera and San Diego Opera. A Coffin in Egypt was commissioned and pre-miered by Houston Grand Opera and has played at Opera Philadelphia, theWallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, and Chicago Opera Theater. Mr.Foglia has also directed the world premieres of operas such as Moby-Dick,Three Decembers, The End of the Affair, Cold Mountain, and Everest. Hisproduction of Dead Man Walking was seen at New York City Opera as wellas across the country. Upcoming is the world premiere of Jake Heggie andGene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life at Houston Grand Opera.

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Praised as one of America’s finestartists and singers, Frederica vonStade (Myrtle Bledsoe) is one ofthe music world’s most beloved fig-ures. Known to family, friends, andfans by her nickname, “Flicka,” themezzo-soprano has enriched theworld of classical music for fourand a half decades.

Ms. von Stade’s career has takenher to the stages of the world’sgreat opera houses and concert

halls. She began at the top, when she received a contract from Rudolf Bingduring the Metropolitan Opera auditions, and since her debut in 1970 shehas sung nearly all of her great roles with that company. In addition, Ms. vonStade has appeared with every leading American opera company, includingthe San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and LA Opera. Her careerin Europe has been no less spectacular, with new productions mounted forher at Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House–Covent Garden, Vienna StateOpera, and Paris Opera. She has collaborated with the world’s finest conduc-tors, including Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Kurt Masur,Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Leonard Slatkin, and MichaelTilson Thomas, as well as with leading orchestras such as the Boston andChicago Symphony Orchestras, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, NewYork Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra,Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of La Scala.Ms. von Stade also enjoys close collaborations with several contemporarycomposers, including Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Dominick Argento,among others.

Isabel Keating (Jessie Lydell) iswidely acclaimed for her starringperformance in Broadway’s TheBoy from Oz, opposite Hugh Jack -man, for which she garnered Tony,Drama League, and Outer CriticsCircle award nominations, and wonthe Drama Desk and Theatre WorldAwards. She also starred onBroadway in Enchanted April(directed by Michael Wilson),Hairspray (directed by JackO’Brien), and most recently


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Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play (also directed by O’Brien). Off-Broadway,Ms. Keating has appeared at Primary Stages (Cusi Cram’s A Lifetime Burningdirected by Pam MacKinnon), Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble StudioTheatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and others. She won the HelenHayes Award for her turn in Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink at Washington, D.C.’sStudio Theatre, and has appeared regionally at the Old Globe (where she wasdirected by Leonard Foglia), Hartford Stage, Bay Street Theater, Paper MillPlayhouse, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Williams town Theatre Festival,and more. For television, Ms. Keating has guest-starred in The Path (upcom-ing), opposite Stanley Tucci in 3 Lbs, and with Vincent D’Onofrio in Law &Order: Criminal Intent. Her films include The Nanny Diaries, Life Before HerEyes, and James Schamus’s directorial debut, Indignation, which had its worldpremiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

David Matranga (Hunter Bledsoe)performed the role of Hunter Bledsoeat the opening of A Coffin in Egypt atHouston Grand Opera, and in subse-quent performances in Los Angeles,Philadelphia, and Chicago. Otherrecent productions include Macbethand Twelfth Night (Houston Shake -speare Festival); Marie Antoinette,Failure: A Love Story, and Dollhouse(Stages Repertory Theatre); YouCan’t Take It with You and AChristmas Carol (Alley Theatre);

Show Boat (Houston Grand Opera); Uncle Vanya (Classical Theatre Company);and more. Other regional theater credits include originating the roles of Patrickin 110 Flights and General Longstreet in General Desdemona at the FirstAnnual New Play Festival at Proctors, Pride and Prejudice (Dallas TheaterCenter), and The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theatre). His film and televisioncredits include Law & Order, All My Children, and As the World Turns. Mr.Matranga has also voiced over 100 animated characters, including BertholdtHoover in Attack on Titan and Wave in Akame Ga Kill! on the Cartoon Network.

David Matranga

Ben Sheaffer’s (Captain Lawson)Broadway credits include 1776(Roundabout Theatre Company)and The Sound of Music with Rich -ard Chamberlain. Off-Broadway heoriginated the role of Simon inTerrence McNally’s Corpus Christi(Manhattan Theatre Club). Regionalcredits include Dear World (Good -speed), A Coffin in Egypt (OperaPhiladelphia), Cloud 9 (WilmaTheater), Into the Woods (FultonTheatre), Bus Stop (Ivoryton

Playhouse), and The Middle of Nowhere (Prince Music Theater). His film andtelevision credits include Gods and Generals and One Life to Live. Mr.Sheaffer serves as associate artistic director of Opera Breve, where he isalso a teaching faculty member. He is a graduate of the University of NorthCarolina School of the Arts.

Based in Houston, Carolyn Johnson(Elsie) is an actress, singer, director,and dialect coach with more than25 years’ experience. She has beenpart of A Coffin in Egypt since itspremiere in 2014 with HoustonGrand Opera and in subsequentproductions in Los Angeles andwith Opera Philadelphia andChicago Opera Theater. She is cur-rently in rehearsals with StagesRepertory Theatre for End of theRainbow as Judy Garland. Other

Stages Repertory credits include the world premiere of The Great AmericanTrailer Park Christmas Musical, A Picasso, and The Great American TrailerPark Musical. Ms. Johnson has performed and trained extensively inChicago, where she served as Bugeater Theatre’s co-artistic director andwas a company member of Noble Fool Theatre. She received her bachelorof fine arts degree in acting from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and isa member of the Actors’ Equity Association.


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Malorie Casimir

A native of Brooklyn, Malorie Casimir (soprano) began her musical education atthe age of 11 as a member of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. Her timethere included working with artists such as John Legend, Elton John, and NicoMuhly. She also sang under the batons of Lorin Maazel, John Adams, andJames Levine. Recent performances include an ensemble part with the MannesOpera in L’elisir d’amore and as Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Hartt School.Ms. Casimir holds awards from the Harlem Opera Theater Vocal Competition,the Crescendo International Music Competition, and Joy in Singing’s PositivelyPoulenc! competition. She spent an academic year in Vienna studying withClaudia Visca and Joelle Bouffa in conjunction with the Institute for theInternational Education of Students. She is currently studying voice with RuthFalcon as a master’s student at the New School’s Mannes School of Music.

Chantelle Grant

Chantelle Grant (mezzo-soprano) is quickly distinguishing herself as a youngartist to watch. She was one of the alumni of the Prelude to Performance pro-gram featured in the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors. A former Mannes OperaYoung Artist, Ms. Grant has had the pleasure of working with maestro JosephColaneri. Her roles have included Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin, Moyra inRiders to the Sea, and Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw. Currently a studentof Arthur Levy, Ms. Grant has studied with operatic legends such as MartinaArroyo, Regina Resnik, and Jane Eaglen. In July 2015 she was chosen by theWagner Society of Washington, D.C., for the inaugural year of the AmericanWagner Project, a joint venture with the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices,where she studied with Dolora Zajick and Luana DeVol. In 2014 she made herTaconic Opera debut in the role of Mistress Quickly in Falstaff.

Terrence Chin-Loy

Terrence Chin-Loy (tenor) is an American tenor from Coral Springs, Florida. Hismost recent work includes Bill in the Mannes Opera’s production of JonathanDove’s Flight, Leoš Janácek’s song cycle The Diary of One Who Disappearedwith the Brooklyn New Music Collective, and singing as a studio artist withCentral City Opera this past summer. Other operatic credits include Rinuccio(Gianni Schicchi, Opera on the Avalon) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte, OperaTheatre of Yale College). Mr. Chin-Loy has also enjoyed much concert work,performing as the tenor soloist in both Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass andMozart’s Requiem. Later this season, he will sing the role of Laurie in theMannes Opera’s production of Mark Adamo’s Little Women. This summer Mr.Chin-Loy returns to Central City Opera to join the summer festival as a studioartist. He received his bachelor of arts degree in musicology from YaleUniversity and is now pursuing his master of music degree at the NewSchool’s Mannes School of Music.

Justin Hopkins

Justin Hopkins’s (bass-baritone) 2015–16 season includes his return toBoston as the featured soloist in the Holiday Pops concert series with theBoston Pops; his return to Carnegie Hall for the New York premiere ofRepast, a solo opera-oratorio; a solo recital with Four Season Arts inBerkeley, California; and the East Coast premiere of Franco Faccio’s Amletowith Opera Delaware. Recent highlights included his return to La Monnaie inBrussels in Strauss’s Daphne, as well as Kurt Weill’s The Road of Promisewith Collegiate Chorale and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall. Mr.Hopkins also made his debut with the Dayton Philharmonic in Britten’s WarRequiem, conducted by Keith Lockhart. A versatile artist, Mr. Hopkins hasperformed operatic roles by composers ranging from Mozart to Philip Glassin such houses as Carnegie Hall and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, andunder the batons of such distinguished conductors as Charles Dutoit, ValeryGergiev, and Leon Botstein.

Timothy Myers

Timothy Myers’s (conductor) 2015–16 season includes two world premieres:O Columbia by Gregory Spears and Royce Vavrek at Houston Grand Operaand Better Gods by Luna Pearl Woolf and Caitlin Vincent at WashingtonNational Opera. As the artistic director and principal conductor of NorthCarolina Opera, Mr. Myers will conduct Madama Butterfly, Il barbiere diSiviglia, and Eugene Onegin. Other engagements include a return to OperaPhiladelphia/Curtis Institute of Music to conduct Capriccio. Mr. Myers’s recentengagements include A Coffin in Egypt at Houston Grand Opera and OperaPhiladelphia; Le pauvre matelot and Les mamelles des Tirésias with Wolf TrapOpera; and the world premieres of With Blood, with Ink by Daniel Crozier(released on disc through Albany Records) at Fort Worth Opera and All Soulsby John Supko at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Otherengagements include Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, theNorth Carolina Symphony, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Myershas also been engaged for associate positions with the New YorkPhilharmonic, New York City Opera, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Keturah Stickann

Keturah Stickann’s (choreographer) directing and choreographic creditsinclude Don Quichotte (San Diego Opera), Macbeth (Kentucky Opera),Rigoletto (Opera Memphis, Dallas Opera), Madama Butterfly (OperaColorado, Opera Santa Barbara), La clemenza di Tito and Don Pasquale (Operain the Heights), Les contes d’Hoffmann, Manon, Il trovatore, andLa traviata (Knoxville Opera), and more. Ms. Stickann is a frequent collabora-tor with director Leonard Foglia, most notably as his choreographer andmovement director for Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, which won the Helpmann



Award in Australia in 2012 and was filmed for PBS’s Great Performances in thesame year. Also for Foglia, she has been the assistant director and choreogra-pher of the mariachi opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna and Ricky Ian Gordon’s ACoffin in Egypt, as well as the assistant director for Jennifer Higdon’s ColdMountain and the national tour of Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy.

Edward Barnes

Edward Barnes (producer) has produced a wide range of concert, stage,recording, and radio projects both in the U.S. and internationally. He hasserved as executive director of Gotham Chamber Opera, producing director ofMasterVoices, and managing director of American Lyric Theater. Mr. Barneshas also produced projects on and Off-Broadway, and for Night Kitchen RadioTheater, Nylon Fusion Collective, and Teatro Paseo La Plaza in Buenos Aires,as well as recordings for Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight and Naxos Records. Also anaward-winning composer, Mr. Barnes’s work has been seen at LA Opera,Minnesota Opera, Mark Taper Forum, American Repertory Theater, ScottishOpera, Seattle Opera, and many more. He is the winner of a GuggenheimFellowship and a Stephen Sondheim Award for the creation of innovativemusical theater.

Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE)

The Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE) is one of the premierperforming ensembles at the New School’s Mannes School of Music. A topmusic conservatory, Mannes is internationally recognized for its musical excel-lence, pedagogical rigor, and deep commitment to developing citizen artistswho engage the world around them in traditional, emergent, and new formsof artistic practice. Founded in 1916, Mannes is known as a caring and sup-portive community, exemplified by its renowned faculty of educators, artists,and scholars who foster close, constructive relationships with their studentswhile preparing them to advance the creative role of music throughout allaspects of a rapidly changing society. MACE was created by LowellLiebermann, chairman of the Mannes composition department, “to championthe music of living American composers.” This busy ensemble presentsworks by iconic American masters such as John Adams and Steve Reich,while exploring works by young and up-and-coming composers such as DavidHertzberg and Nina C. Young. For the 2015–16 season, MACE’s programminghas been curated by one of the leading conductors of his generation, AlanPierson, who has also conducted the ensemble.

American Songbook

In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the cele-bration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre-

ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn ofthe 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans allstyles and genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadwayto the eclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook alsoshowcases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including estab-lished and emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles:presenter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education andcommunity relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presen-ter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, andeducational activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivalsincluding American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival,Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly MozartFestival, and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winningLive From Lincoln Center, which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of theLincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the LincolnCenter complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a$1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE)Mengyi Cao, Violin ILaura Pereira Del Rio, Violin IIKrizstina Kiss, ViolaKimberly Jeong, CelloDario Olachea, BassDenis Savelyev, Flute/PiccoloYan Yuet Chueng, Clarinet/Bass ClarinetWilliam Bard, HornLaurie Rogers, Piano/Celesta

American Songbook

American Songbook

Lincoln Center Programming DepartmentJane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic DirectorHanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music ProgrammingJon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary ProgrammingJill Sternheimer, Director, Public ProgrammingLisa Takemoto, Production ManagerKate Monaghan, Associate Director, ProgrammingCharles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingMauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingRegina Grande, Associate ProducerAmber Shavers, Associate Producer, Public ProgrammingLuna Shyr, Senior EditorNick Kleist, Company ManagerOlivia Fortunato, House Seat Coordinator

For American SongbookMatt Berman, Lighting DesignScott Stauffer, Sound DesignAngela Fludd, Wardrobe Assistant

For A Coffin in EgyptJohn Finen, Stage ManagerAriela Bohrod, Rehearsal PianistZachary Goodman, Assistant/Cover ConductorSusan Woodruff Versage, Music Preparation, Gospel Choir

Matt Berman

Matt Berman is the resident lighting designer for Lincoln Center’s AmericanSongbook. He continues his design work for Kristin Chenoweth, LizaMinnelli, Alan Cumming, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lea Salonga, and ElainePaige on the road. Through his work with ASCAP and several U.S.-basedcharities, Mr. Berman has designed for a starry roster that includesBernadette Peters, Barbra Streisand, Reba McEntire, Melissa Errico,Deborah Voigt, Michael Urie, Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Garth Brooks, BillyJoel, and Sting. His international touring schedule has allowed him to designfor iconic venues such as Royal Albert Hall, the Paris Opera, the Olympia the-ater in Paris, Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the Sporting Club in MonteCarlo, the Acropolis, the famed amphitheater in Taormina, Sicily, Luna Park inBuenos Aires, and the Sydney Opera House. Closer to home, he has donework for the Hollywood Bowl, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Mr.Berman’s television work includes Chenoweth’s recently released special,Coming Home, as well as seven Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, andthe Tony Award–winning Liza’s at the Palace, which he also designed forBroadway. Other Broadway credits include Bea Arthur on Broadway, NancyLaMott’s Just in Time for Christmas, and Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony at theBelasco Theater.

Scott Stauffer

Scott Stauffer has been the sound designer for Lincoln Center’s AmericanSongbook since 1999; the Actors Fund concerts of Frank Loesser, Broadway101, Hair, and On the Twentieth Century; and Brian Stokes Mitchell atCarnegie Hall. His Broadway credits include A Free Man of Color, The Rivals,Contact (also in London and Tokyo), Marie Christine, Twelfth Night, and Jekyll& Hyde. Off-Broadway Mr. Stauffer has worked on Promises, Hereafter, AMinister’s Wife, Bernarda Alba, Third, Belle Epoque, Big Bill, Elegies, HelloAgain, The Spitfire Grill, Pageant, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Hisregional credits include productions at the Capitol Repertory Theatre,University of Michigan, Hanger Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, ChicagoShakespeare Theater, and Alley Theatre. As a sound engineer, Mr. Staufferhas worked on The Lion King, Juan Darién, Chronicle of a Death Foretold,Carousel, Once on This Island, and Little Shop of Horrors (Off-Broadway).

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